"dvd1" in CD image names? (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3 available here)

Conrad J. Sabatier conrads at cox.net
Sat Oct 1 02:49:09 UTC 2011


On Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:21:32 -0400
Fbsd8 <fbsd8 at a1poweruser.com> wrote:

> FreeBSD 9.0 BETA3 is available here
> 
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/i386/ISO-IMAGES/9.0/

I've been wondering, why the recent change to using "dvd1" in the names
of the full CD images?  These *are* CD, not DVD images, aren't they?
The misnomer is more than a little misleading, and could easily cause
people some difficulties.

Or am I missing something here?

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Conrad J. Sabatier
conrads at cox.net


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